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[reipan]

 

Dear Straight People, 

I’m sorry. I’m truly, truly sorry.

Let’s get this quite clear. I love all people. (Well, most people. Some people, anyway. A number of people.) And I embrace the diversity of human life and the bonds that people form between each other, and understand that it lust, romance, love and all things related are natural things, and breathtakingly beautiful to behold. 

Therefore, allow me to reassure you all of one important fact: I am perfectly aware that lots and lots of people can – and do – enter into heterosexual relationships which are loving, committed, healthy to both parties and mutually satisfying. I even know a few people who have entered into relationships of this nature with people of the opposite sex. And, in day-to-day life, I like when this happens, because it makes my friends happy, and that’s rather nice.

I just don’t seem able to write them. 

I don’t know what it is. Perhaps I have issues with my parents; perhaps I read Lolita at too young an age (not that I’ve written het paedophilia. Yet.); perhaps I laughed a little too hard the first time I ever read one of those teen magazine “sex and love” advice columns and the piece of my brain with “NORMAL STRAIGHT RELATIONSHIP PORTRAYAL” written on it in black marker pen turned blue and fell off. Come to think of it, maybe it was the black marker ink that did the trick. It’s just that every time I try to examine a heterosexual relationship in any detail in a story, it turns twisted.  I can sort of cruise over the basics without much hassle, but anything beyond that, and we start getting warped.

So, yeah. Sorry about that. 

But if it’s any consolation...you should see what I do to my gay characters.

Cheers,

Rei.

 

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

Oh, God, I can entirely sympathise. I'm a James/Mary fan, which is twisted on its own, and when I was writing Doctor/Rose I kept accidentally murdering Rose, and, er, yes, man/dog...

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Um, I'm working on a sort-of normal het pairing fic at the moment! (WATCH THEM END UP IN SILENT HILL NOW THAT I'VE SAID THAT.)

Well, twisted relationships are fun, anyway.

[mewteos.livejournal.com]

The last time I tried to write het, I gave up and made the guy fall in love with his older brother. :B

[hippyjolteon.livejournal.com]

I wholeheartedly agree with this post. I wanted to write het, I truly did, but I CAN'T DO IT!

[insteadofdeath.livejournal.com]

Hey, nothing wrong with twisted relationships ;P Het or not. Think of it as... keeping things interesting.